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===1914 gun running=== [[File:Fianna Éireann Council, 1915? (20866908436).jpg|thumb|Fianna Éireann Council, between 1912 and 1915. Front row (left to right) Patrick Holohan, Michael Lonergan and [[Con Colbert]]. Back row (left to right) Garry Holohan and Padraig Ó Riain]] The Fianna played a part in gun-running in [[Kilcoole]] and [[Howth gun-running|Howth]].<ref name="howth">{{cite web|url=http://www.theirishstory.com/2014/07/26/today-in-irish-history-july-26th-1914-the-howth-gun-running|publisher=The Irish Story|title=Today in Irish History – 26 July 1914: The Howth Gun Running|access-date=6 December 2015|date=26 July 2014|archive-date=23 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123184443/http://www.theirishstory.com/2014/07/26/today-in-irish-history-july-26th-1914-the-howth-gun-running/|url-status=live}}</ref> Fianna members brought their trek-cart to Howth Pier to meet the [[Asgard (yacht)|Asgard]]. The trek-cart was full of home-made batons, and these were distributed to the Volunteers on the pier.<ref name="rtehowth">{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0725/633075-the-extraordinary-story-of-the-asgard|publisher=RTÉ News|date=27 July 2014|access-date=6 December 2015|title=The extraordinary story of the Asgard and the Howth Gunrunning, 100 years on|archive-date=16 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216180526/http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0725/633075-the-extraordinary-story-of-the-asgard/|url-status=live}}</ref> The cart was then used to carry the surplus rifles back to the city. At [[Clontarf, Dublin|Clontarf]], the DMP and British military were awaiting the return of the volunteers and a confrontation ensued.<ref name="rtehowth"/> Fianna officers detoured with their gun-laden cart up the Howth Road, arriving eventually at Kilmore Road, [[Artane, Dublin|Artane]], where the arms were stored for later recovery. [[John Redmond]] forced his nominees to be added the Volunteers' central committee in 1914, [[National Volunteers|leading to a split]] at the outbreak of [[World War I]]. Bulmer Hobson's help to Redmond, and his subsequent opposition to the Easter Rising (he was kept under armed guard by [[Seán Mac Diarmada]] on Easter Monday 1916 as the Rising broke out, and held until the rising was under way, upon which he fled home to Belfast) led to Hobson's being sidelined by the republican movement and removed from any leadership role for the rest of his life.{{citation needed|date= December 2015}}
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